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			   	<h3 id="glossary-chain-basics">Chain Basics</h3>
			   	
			   		<section id="blockchain">
					   	<dt>Blockchain</dt>
					    <dd>Decentralized ledger and consensus protocol</dd>
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			   		<section id="steem">
					   	<dt>Steem</dt>
					    <dd>Name of the blockchain and platform</dd>
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			   		<section id="bandwidth">
					   	<dt>Bandwidth</dt>
					    <dd>is the limit of data each account can send/use</dd>
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			   		<section id="vests">
					   	<dt>VESTS</dt>
					    <dd>Vests is underlying token that STEEM is derived from, and are share in Steem Power</dd>
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			   		<section id="steem">
					   	<dt>STEEM</dt>
					    <dd>Currency of the blockchain, liquid version of Steem Power</dd>
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			   		<section id="sbd">
					   	<dt>SBD</dt>
					    <dd>Steem Backed Dollar, $1 worth of STEEM</dd>
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			   		<section id="steem-power">
					   	<dt>Steem Power</dt>
					    <dd>Locked version of STEEM which gives account influence on the platform</dd>
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			   		<section id="transaction">
					   	<dt>Transaction</dt>
					    <dd>Operations/Activity/Write requests to the blockchain</dd>
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					   	<dt>Block</dt>
					    <dd>Bundle of transactions to be included in blockchain</dd>
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					   	<dt>Block Header</dt>
					    <dd>Information about block, root and witness who signed, etc.</dd>
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			   		<section id="price-feed">
					   	<dt>Price feed</dt>
					    <dd>Feed that is maintained by witnesses to ensure SBD/STEEM price stability</dd>
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			   		<section id="account">
					   	<dt>Account</dt>
					    <dd>User account on Steem blockchain</dd>
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			   		<section id="authority">
					   	<dt>Authority</dt>
					    <dd>Each Account has multiple authority and keys to manager different permissions on the platform</dd>
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					   	<dt>Owner</dt>
					    <dd>Owner authority/permission of account</dd>
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					   	<dt>Public Key</dt>
					    <dd>Public key of account's certain authority</dd>
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					   	<dt>Private Key</dt>
					    <dd>Private key to sign a transaction with account's authority, should be kept secret because it grants access to account</dd>
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					   	<dt>Wif</dt>
					    <dd>Wallet Import Format/Private key, should be kept secret because it grants access to account</dd>
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			   		<section id="vote">
					   	<dt>Vote</dt>
					    <dd>Voting a content</dd>
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					   	<dt>Reputation</dt>
					    <dd>Account's reputation on platform</dd>
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			   	<h3 id="glossary-governance">Governance</h3>
			   	
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					   	<dt>DPOS</dt>
					    <dd>Delegated Proof of Stake</dd>
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					   	<dt>Node</dt>
					    <dd>Servers running blockchain software</dd>
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					   	<dt>Witness</dt>
					    <dd>Witness is a position/role for the people who are chosen by community (delegate trust) to support platform and run consensus protocol to ensure security and validity of transactions/blocks on the blockchain</dd>
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					   	<dt>Node</dt>
					    <dd>Servers running blockchain software</dd>
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					   	<dt>Hardfork</dt>
					    <dd>Process to release protocol/blockchain consensus upgrades</dd>
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					   	<dt>Softfork</dt>
					    <dd>Process to release protocol/blockchain software improvements</dd>
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					   	<dt>Witness Vote</dt>
					    <dd>Voting/electing witnesses with account's stake</dd>
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			   	<h3 id="glossary-transactions">Transactions</h3>
			   	
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					   	<dt>Transaction</dt>
					    <dd>Operations submitted to the blockchain</dd>
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					    <dd>Transaction that is pending and to be included to the blockchain</dd>
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					   	<dt>Transaction Hex</dt>
					    <dd>Hash of the transaction</dd>
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					   	<dt>Signatures</dt>
					    <dd>Transaction signature signed by account with private key</dd>
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					    <dd>Event where signed transaction is broadcasted to the network, so that witnesses could validate and include in block</dd>
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			   	<h3 id="glossary-api">API</h3>
			   	
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					   	<dt>Trending</dt>
					    <dd>Posts/Discussions that are highly valued by community with bigger time interval update</dd>
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					   	<dt>Hot</dt>
					    <dd>Posts/Disccussions that are highly valued with shorter time interval update</dd>
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					   	<dt>Feed</dt>
					    <dd>Posts/Disccussions from followers of particular account</dd>
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			   		<section id="active">
					   	<dt>Active</dt>
					    <dd>Posts/Disscussions that are still actively being engaged</dd>
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			   		<section id="new">
					   	<dt>New</dt>
					    <dd>Newly created posts</dd>
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			   		<section id="cashout">
					   	<dt>Cashout</dt>
					    <dd>Posts which was paid out recently</dd>
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			   		<section id="promoted">
					   	<dt>Promoted</dt>
					    <dd>Posts which was promoted by burning SBD to get more visibility</dd>
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			   		<section id="pending-payout">
					   	<dt>Pending Payout</dt>
					    <dd>Estimated pending payout for blog posts/comments</dd>
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			   		<section id="tags">
					   	<dt>Tags</dt>
					    <dd>Tags, categories, hashtags each post is assigned to.</dd>
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			   		<section id="trending-tags">
					   	<dt>Trending Tags</dt>
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			   		<section id="following">
					   	<dt>Following</dt>
					    <dd>Account that is being followed</dd>
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			   		<section id="state">
					   	<dt>State</dt>
					    <dd>State of blockchain for path - accounts/tags/filters/posts</dd>
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			   		<section id="dynamic-global-properties">
					   	<dt>Dynamic Global Properties</dt>
					    <dd>Current blockchain global properties which is being in each block</dd>
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			   		<section id="median-price">
					   	<dt>Median Price</dt>
					    <dd>Median Price feed provided by all witnesses</dd>
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			   	<h3 id="glossary-market">Market</h3>
			   	
			   		<section id="conversion-requests">
					   	<dt>Conversion Requests</dt>
					    <dd>Request submitted for Converting SBD to STEEM</dd>
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			   		<section id="order-book">
					   	<dt>Order Book</dt>
					    <dd>Internal market order book to exchange SBD<->STEEM</dd>
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					    <dd>Smart Media Tokens</dd>
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